Herman Cain is a new voice on Fox News. His comments seem to make him a worthy replacement for Sarah Palin, matching the obtuseness she often offered.
For example, when asked in an interview with Bill O’Reilly why President Obama is so popular, he responded along the lines of (as David paraphrases):
“We have a severe ignorance problem and he received the vote of 51% of the electorate who were misled enough to vote for him.”
Of course, as David points out, all of the facts contradict this assertion, but why argue with truth?
David shares segments of the O’Reilly/Cain interview and discusses the disconnect that continues in the way Fox, and the right in general, view the true mood of America.
“I’m looking for pies.” —Vice President Joe Bidenat Costco.
“He said he wouldn’t play me but I could play on his team.” — Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin IIIon challenging Obama to a basketball game.
“Last week The Onion said I was going to become a male stripper.” — Education Secretary Arne Duncanresponding to questions about his future.
“It’s a cultural icon! Or something.” — Former White House hopeful Herman Cain on his 9-9-9 tax plan.
“I screwed up royally.”— Ex-CIA director David Petraeusin a letter about his affair.
“The only good thing about Grover Norquist is he’s named after a character from ‘Sesame Street.’” — Former Pres. George W. Bush adviser Matthew Dowd going after the anti-tax activist.
“The notion that you can solve all problems over a cocktail I think is a little overrated.” — WH press secretary Jay Carneyon the importance of socialization with lawmakers.
“I got beer!” — Small business owner Deborah Careydiscovering bottles of White House home brew in her swag bag.
Well, we’re one third of the way through the annual right wing confab known as the Conservative Political Action Conference and what a journey already.
The big guns are still to come, but the warm up acts today included Senators, Congressmen, former Presidential Candidates, actors, talking heads and one self-described comedian.
We heard a litany of reasons why conservatives are just plain awesome and possibly more reasons why the President has to go. So, sit back, catch up on the highlights and get ready because the best is yet to come…
The Rachel Maddow Blog says that Clint Eastwood won the Super Bowl! The way people are talkingabout it (she has more than 90 comments on this title alone) she may be right.
It’s interesting that Clint Eastwood, a Republican who supported John McCain in 2008 and most recently, Herman Cain touts the regrowth of Detroit and the auto industry’s comeback. I was under the impression that one of the biggest faux pas ever committed by a Republican is to tout any Obama successes.
Granted, Eastwood never mentions Obama in the commercial because it is really a centric commercial, however, most folks know that the GOP was adamantly against a bail out for the auto industry from the time The President proposed it. So it only stands to reason that some GOPers will not be too happy with Eastwood’s Chrysler commercial.
In the following Reganesquetitled Super Bowl commercial: It’s Half-time in America, Eastwood and Chrysler appear to have a hit Super Bowl commercial on their hands…
I have no idea why Black Republicans seem to be so self-loathing and misguided, but they do.
Allen West and Herman Cain are good examples of members of the GOP who see and hear racist rhetoric against the POTUS, the poor and middle class working people. Yet they side with those who would denigrate people of their own race, regardless of their station in life.
The President is a Harvard graduate who worked hard to get to where he is today, yet the main objective of the GOP is not just to make him a “one term president”, but to castrate him in the process and West and Cain are contributing with their “yes sir boss, we got him by the short hairs now, boss” attitude.
Metaphorically speaking, it sickens me to no end to see in this day and age, with the history Blacks have amassed, that there are still some “house negroes” that would do anything to please their master.
Rep. Allen West (R-FL) once again sparked controversy with a demagogic speech in Florida this past weekend where he demanded that liberals and President Obama “get the hell out of the United States of America.” Now, West is engaged in a rapid backpedal, appearing both on CNN and Fox this morning to insist that what he said is not actually what he said.
On CNN, West demanded that a skeptical host Soledad O’Brien view the entire speech an realize that “he was simply trying to draw attention to the decline of a country” at the hands of people who hold values that are “not in concert with our constitutional republic.” “And if you can’t understand that,” he added, “please come down to South Florida, you and I can read the Federalist Papers.” Later on Fox and Friends, West told host Steve Doocy, “I did not refer to any person leaving”:
WEST: The other thing is that I did not refer to any person leaving. If you go back and read the transcript of the message that I gave, it was about equality of achievement, it was about economic dependence, it was about enslaving the American entrepreneur’s will and spirit. That message needs to leave this country. And that was what I was referring to. And I think that anyone that sat back and looked at the entirety of that 12 minute, 45 second speech would understand that we’re talking about a contrast of visions of this country.
Watch both interviews:
Looking back at the transcript as requested, it’s pretty clear that West specifically named “President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and my dear friend, the chairman of the Democrat National Committee [Debbie Wasserman-Schultz]” to “take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States.”
Nonetheless, West has made a practice of lobbingincendiary rhetoric across the aisle and thenblaming the news media for the resulting backlash. Reacting to Fox pundit Bob Beckel’s demand that West apologize, a somewhat thin-skinned West shot back, “I think Bob Beckel owes me an apology for saying that he would not refer to me as a congressional representative nor as a lieutenant colonel, retired.”
